Week 3

MTH- all subjects were taught. 

Week 3

* Why we do quotes and positive affirmations- Every morning my sixth grade teacher would help us memorize a quote and review positive affirmations. My lifelong love for good quotes began in that classroom. I consider my 6th grade teacher to be one of the greatest educators of all time and teaching my children positive affirmations and uplifting quotes is my way of honoring the gifts Mrs. Danes gave to me.

 Positive affirmations and quotes

When I pay attention, I can find things around me that bring joy.

There are many exciting experiences awaiting me.

I can find humor in the day-to-day.

I can be myself. 

Purposefully bring joy into your life. 

Lynnette Sheppard

Week 2 Highlights

J- My highlight was reading lots of books while cuddling with cats. And switching over to Khan Academy.

A- Making bread and a new recipe.

Math- Redbird wasn't working for us, so we switched over to Khan Academy.

LA-  Night Zookeeper and lots of creative writing going on. They have some fun stories. We also started spelling this week.

Science

    Experiment One- Cooking. Here is the recipe my 7 year old created.

In case you need a translation:

Eskos- 

(we made Eskimo cookies just the day before)

Ingredients

Butter- One

Brown sugar- lots

Sugar- lots

Marshmallows- Lots and lots

Later he added Rice Krispies to the recipe

bowls-2

Directions

Get out ingredients

Melt the butter

Put the butter in the bowl

Put the brown sugar in the bowl

Put the sugar in the bowl

Put the marshmallows in the bowl

Stir it

Melt it

Put the rice krispies in it

Then stir it again

Then roll it and put it another bowl.

*Eskos can melt!

They actually turned out pretty good.

 

Experiment Two-  Growing Crystals

This year we are focusing heavily on the Scientific Method. We reviewed the steps and set up the experiment. 

Which grows more defined egg shell crystals, Epson Salt or Alum? They hypothesized the Epson Salt would since the crystals started out bigger.

After 24 hour we pulled  them out to observe. First the kids noticed they egg shells were dyed. 

Our Epson salt ones did not grow crystals. We hypothesized it was either because our started solution was not concentrated enough or the starter crystals dissolved. Ours Alum ones only grew a little, and they guessed it may because we didn't give the glue that we stuck the starter crystals on with enough time to dry. The kids observed the Epson Salt crystals that did grown were more defined and bigger, but not as many.

 

Art/OT- Clay may be our youngest sons new favorite thing.

A whale and a cat

A cat

A tree

Inspired by Newspaper Rock

A dragon!

We decided to adopt "The Dragon" as our official school mascot.  

It also helps that this guy is Dragon. 😉

Social Studies-We learned Massachusetts is called the Bay State with 19 bays! Also, unlike a lot of men during the colonial period, George Washington never wore a wig.

PE- The trampoline is the greatest. 😉

The extras- Even if not mentioned, every week my kids are doing something with Exploring Technology (similar to STEAM classes) and learning about topics personally chosen by them (currently Greek Mythology and the Ocean). We also work on other areas considers "less academic" to help us become well rounded individuals. Refer to our schedule for other items taught.